Download PDF by Kaushik Basu,Ravi Kanbur: Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya

Download PDF by Kaushik Basu,Ravi Kanbur: Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya

By Kaushik Basu,Ravi Kanbur

Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the tutorial disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences extra commonly. He has engaged in coverage discussion and public debate, advancing the reason for a human improvement targeted coverage time table, and a tolerant and democratic polity. This argumentative Indian has made the case for the poorest of the negative, and for plurality in cultural point of view. it's not impressive that he has received the highestawards, starting from the Nobel Prize in Economics to the Bharat Ratna, India's optimum civilian honor. This public popularity has long past hand in hand with the love and admiration that Amartya's pals and scholars carry for him.

This quantity of essays, written in honor of his seventy fifth birthday through his scholars and friends, covers the variety of contributions that Sen has made to wisdom. they're written by way of many of the world's major economists, philosophers and social scientists, and handle themes comparable to ethics, welfare economics, poverty, gender, human improvement, society and politics. this primary quantity covers the themes of Ethics, Normative Economics and Welfare; organization, Aggregation and Social selection; Poverty,Capabilities and size; and id, Collective motion and Public Economics. it's a becoming tribute to Sen's personal contributions to the discourse on Ethics, Welfare and Measurement.

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